Great job Baz, you're definitely the man I would entrust to carry out a wet belt replacement. What a stupid design though.....a rubber belt running in engine oil!! Plus how much has to be removed to gain access to the belt.......especially for a 3 cylinder 1.0 litre engine!!! Give me a zetec engine any day!! Keep up the great work Baz.
Decent upgrade, that new camera. Top work as always. It seems crazy that a service item (that wet belt) requires such a colossal amount of work to be changed over.
Thanks, my usual repair garage would not touch this job, nor would any other local guys, so I went to the main dealers. They did the job including water pump etc for £1200, having seen the work involved i am OK with the final cost which had 10 hours of labour.
I think the early ones suffered with self destruction when fragments of wet belt blocked oil pickup screen. At least that's what had happened to the Fiesta 1.0 I bought as a non runner couple of years ago. That one you had in video was spotless inside so maybe problem was solved on later versions 👍
They are very clever engines, the Peugeot version is better. Lots of innovation but possibly a bit too clever!! Need looking after but can do 150000 miles before major work no problem. Just never follow manufacturers service schedule Oil every 5000 miles Belt every 50000 And check everything often.
Well done to you sir ! We wil try and get over there in the near future and book our little fiesta for the same procedure! Your vids are a gem and it deff shows what experience looks like and why this is done with care and following all the steps !
Great video. I had the job done when my Focus hit 10 years old (May 2022) only the Main dealer would do the job. First time I've every driven a vehicle that was going okay and paid £1,600+ for a repair! Of course it is a 'dockyard' job and you're not sitting behind a ticking timebomb wondering when it might break by having it done. It is something folk who buy used ones need to factor in.
If cars no longer come into the garage that often, you design the engine in such a way that major repairs are planned, and when problems arise, bury your head in the sand and blame everything else 👍good work Ford ! for me never a Ford again 👎
My niece had problems with her focus ecoboost engine,she spent over £3500 on a exchange engine,turbo various sensors,it never ran right and she ended up selling it to the garage. They drive ok but they are not good engines .
We should appreciate real mechanics more.Treat them like engineers which they in reality are.How many models of cars and every model other belt system.If you think this one is complicated,look at videos of some VW models.A near impossible job for diy like me.Great camera job and how many hours of editing?
I keep having seized bolts on the air conditioning compressor I’ve had to remove the sump with a/c compressor still bolted to sump on a couple which makes it very difficult to refit as it’s so heavy
I bought a ecosport 1 litre auto for the mrs last year with 15k on the clock 68 plate late 2018, so nice to drive, now has 20k on the clock but will service it myself using Westway oils which are very good (no I don’t work for them) kind regards to you Baz and everyone out there Mark from Billericay
@@mikeclewlow6510 ford won’t help you unless they are servicing it, even then it’s unlikely they’ll help if it’s out of warranty The biggest issue with these is using the wrong oil, you see it time and time again
I really wish we could get some empirical , rather than anecdotal, evidence on the Ecoboost. Just to see whether a lot of these Ecoboosts going pop, outside of the early recall related issues, are bad design, bad maintenance or maybe both.
There appears to be a problem in the industry and with the car buying public at large in relation to the concept of preventative maintenance, (not at this garage 🤙). I feel too many years of highly reliable cars and have brought the industry and the car buying public back into reality very quickly with components failing regularly. This is because of the change in technology chosen by; or forced on manufacturers, eg, timing chains, wet belts, 3 cylinder engines and emission related technology which the car buying public were not openly told about or how to care for these fickle technologies. This attitude of lethargy towards preventative maintenance might go some way to explain why so many are not checking brake fluid and why the car buying public don’t seal to care about or know about brake fluid and it’s hydroscopic properties
I have a 2013 fiesta ecoboost and it’s claimed to of had the belt and water pump done by a Ford specialist and it rattles only when it gets hot and the emissions are out on the mot
not like this happen in service where i was before - no possible to speak and disturb the mechanic - he must work quickly to grow the company i was concern to destroy all my cable/hose clip terifiant experience
Bring back pushrods!! If its a great engine, why do some fail when perfectly serviced at a main ford dealer? Something else is going on here starting the self destruction process. Belt quality, vibration, can gear tolerance. It's not just about oil. It is a crap engine, if only for the 'difficulty' of belt inspection and bankruptcy level expense of belt replacement. How many otherwise good cars have been scrapped over this issue?? A lot! Insane design.
Terrible things to drive, had a ecoboost Fiesta 1.0 which was OK if you revved the nuts off it but no low end torque at all. False economy to use an engine so small.
Back in the seventies the Essex and Cologne V6 engines were prone to fibre timing gears self destructing and camshaft lobes wearing prematurely; nothing changes.
The few fails I have seen have been cars with more short drives and using Ron95. Short drives on these would dictate a oil change sooner than the typical annual most people tend to do.
Love your videos but the old camera was substantially better , Sharper , more vivid colours and stable . Watch any of the previous videos on a medium size monitor its very obvious . When you pan or move it lags behind terribly . Name the original one please .
Any engine that requires that level of disassembly to renew a belt is a bloody joke. Thanks for the video as it is a reminder to not get any vehicle with this wet belt crap.
Same old story, people skip services, don't keeping up on basic maintenance, and engines get a bad name. These same people would destroy a ferrari, and say it's the car's fault.
These are related to the peugeot 1.2 thp engines but on the peugeot i didnt have to remove the timing cover, just an inspection cover and the floating crank pulley. The belt can be fed down from the top.
I don't like to put prices I like to keep it fair for others garages that are doing the repairs... I'd hate to be the chap on the internet that does it cheaper.... It just saves debates
As a ex mechanic of 29 years,now beef farmer,,come on,,,its A FORD,,,Fix or Repair Daily,,they are crap,,,Toyota or Honda only...Anything else is just inadequate..
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You are saying not to use anything abrasive on the sump and timing cover when you are cleaning it. There is nothing more abrasive than a wire brush wheel in a drill? I dont get that. Or was it a wire wool wheel, if so then i understand that. Maybe i miss understood?
